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Monthly Archives: July 2012
A snapshot of our collection – history
Earlier this month I hosted a meeting of CHILL. It is a group of independent health libraries which meets three times a year in the premises of one or other of the members. The meetings are an opportunity to share … Continue reading
Posted in History, Libraries and librarians
2 Comments
PLOS shift
Camel case (the practice of writing words with some inner uppercase letters) is one of my pet hates, as it demands sufficient finger dexterity to make sure you hit the shift key at just the right point in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Journal publishing
11 Comments
Flying through the Crick
Quick update to my post about the Crick Institute building site. The Crick has now released a fly-through video animation to show what the interior of the building will look like. It is just 4 minutes long, and includes some … Continue reading
Posted in Crick
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Another collection of essays
Last year I gave a shameless plug for the Mill Hill Essays that I produce each year. Here is another plug, for the latest collection – Mill Hill Essays 2011-12. The printed booklets have been distributed (free to libraries and other … Continue reading
A very large building site
Last week I went on a short tour of the Francis Crick Institute construction site. The Crick is a new research institute due to open in 2015, and will be formed out of two existing institutes in London plus three … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating science, Crick
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Megajournals
The trend towards Open Access has catalysed the creation of many new journals and new publishers. BioMedCentral, established in 2000, was a pioneer of open access publishing, launching a large number of journals. Public Library of Science (PLoS) initially established … Continue reading
M and S
I am back at work after a three-week break. I had a good holiday, visiting Manila and Singapore. I really managed to switch off, totally ignoring the temptation to look at my email or Twitter. The part of my brain … Continue reading